"Idiotic and untenable" sums up May's term as Home Secretary (never mind her time as PM).
Labour set the scene for the recent ascendance of UKIP (by opening the doors to all-comers from the EU while many other countries worked within the rules and phased entry for EU immigrants), but for all May's Home Secretary show of being a hard case (those revolting, ridiculous poster trucks telling folks to "go home" if they were here without official sanction, for instance), she did nothing meaningful to stem the "tide" even though she had all the legal regulatory and compensatory means (like ploughing resources into the communities worst effected so that their social services weren't overstretched) necessary to do so if she'd just applied herself to the task.
So here we are, with both main parties having ceded any high ground about economic and other immigration (which we need, and are happy about when it works the other way) to the rump of UKIP, denying residence to people who'd do nothing but enrich us and our culture and without whom some of our essential services can't function, headed for economic devastation on the strength of a glib Remain/Leave vote that certain pols are conveniently interpreting as giving them carte blanche for whatever idiotic and untenable measures they see fit because "the will of the people" etc. etc., and meanwhile, the ground reasons for our economic and other ills are only likely to get worse and lead to even more idiotic and untenable countermeasures that we'll all be the worse off for because nobody in the UK's polity has the guts or wit or will to clearly point them out and stand their ground against the inevitable backlash from the stupid RW media.
Sorry for the rant, but GAAAHHH! Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for beer.
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